 | John Bell - 1789 - 202 pages
...skill ; Yet would the village. praise my wonderous pow'r, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their...Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear, For honor .forms the social temper here. Honor, that praise which real merit gains, Or even imaginary worth... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...skill ; Yet would the village praise my wond'rous pow'r. And dance, forgetful of the noontide hour. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their...grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath tlie burden of threescore. ; So blest a life these thoughtless realms display; Thus idly busy rolls... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...skill ; Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour. € Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their...grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burdeii of three-score. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy rolls their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...skill ; Yet would the village praise my wond'rous power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their...the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestick lore, Has frisk'd, beneath the burden of threescore. So bless'da life these thoughtless realms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...forgetful of the noontide hour. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children thro' the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire, skill'd...here : Honour, that praise which real merit gains, Or e'en imaginary worth obtains, Here passes current; paid from hand to hand, It shifts, in splendid traffic,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...thro* the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms...Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear, For honor forma the social temper here. Honor, that praise which real merit gains, Or e'en imaginary worth... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...skill ; Yet would the village praise my wonderous power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their...Theirs are those arts that mind to mind endear, For honor forms the social temper here. Honor, that praise which real merit gains, Or even imaginary worth... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skiU'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burthen of...here. Honour, that praise which real merit gains, Or e'en imaginary worth obtains, Here passes current; paid from hand to hand, It shifts in splendid traffic... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy rolls their world awayi Theirs arc those arts that mind to mind endear, For honour forms...here. Honour, that praise which real merit gains, Or e'en imaginary worth obtains, Here pusses current ; paid from hand to hand It shifts in splendid traffic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...their children thro' the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk' d beneath the burthen of threescore. So blest a life...here : Honour, that praise which real merit gains, Or e'en imaginary worth obtains, Here passes current ; paid from band to hand, It shifts, in splendid... | |
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And haply, though my harsh touch, faltering still, But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's skill; Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance, forgetful of the noontide hour. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children... 
